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E. WILLIAMS.

SAFETY PIN. No. 254,445. Patented Feb. 28,1882;

N. PETERS. Pholo-ljlhcgnpher. Washington. ac,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD IVILLIAMS, OF NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO SUSAN T. WILLIAMS, OF

BROOKLYN, N. Y.

SAFETY-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,445, dated February 28, 1882.

Application filed September 15, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD WILLIAMS, of

New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Safety-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in safety-pins and it consists in having attached to a cylindrical or any other form of tube, at one end thereof, a fixed sharp-pointed pin and a corresponding sharp-pointed pin at the other end operated by a spiral within the tube, all of which will be hereinafter more fully described, and set forth in the claim.

Figure 1 is a view of a safety-pin, usual size for holding the stocking to the lower part of the drawers. Fig. 2 is an enlarged longitudinal section and transverse section. Fig. 3

shows the application as stocking-supporter.

A is the stock or tube, which may be made of any convenient cross-section, either flat and rectangular, oval, or circular, and of any sheet metal,which may be very thin and corrugated, as seen in cross-section,Fig.2, to give strength thereto transversely. It may also be ornamented. It can be applied for fastening the stockings to the leg of the drawers, also as (No model.)

the movable point B into the article and then recoil it and let the other point, B, enter the article, and then the tension of the spring G will force the point B into the article in the 0;

opposite direction.

I claim- A safety-pin formed of a tube having at one end a fixed pin-point, and within the tube, at

the other end, a movable bent wire surrounded 5 by a coiled spring, with a pin-point projecting from the wire and operating through a slot in V the side of the tube, substantially as and for the purpose described.

ED WARD I WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

HENRY O. BANKS, ISAAC ROSENBAURGH.

The other pin, B, is 30 

